Amazon.com description: Product Description: Every first of December, Christopher Byrne travels from his Nova Scotia farm to Manhattan to sell his Christmas trees. But this year there'd be no cheer for the widower and his twelve-year-old daughter, Bridget. For New York City had taken Christy's only son, headstrong sixteen-year-old Danny, who'd run off without a trace. . . . Librarian Catherine Tierney used to love the holidays. But after her husband died on Christmas Eve three years ago, the festivities seem to start too early and last too long. On her quaint Chelsea street, Catherine and the tree seller from Nova Scotia will meet . . . and find a holiday gift of new love and new hope to last a lifetime.

• Luanne Rice lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut, with her husband
• A New York Times Bestselling Author
• Two of her novels have been adapted into TV movies. Crazy in Love (1992) starred Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman and Gena Rowlands; and Blue Moon (1999) starred Sharon Lawrence, Kim Hunter and Richard Kiley
• Luanne Rice is the author of seventeen novels, most recently Beach Girls, Dance With Me, The Perfect Summer, The Secret Hour, Safe Harbor, True Blue, Summer Light, Dream Country, Follow the Stars Home and Cloud Nine